Alison Buttenheim
alison-buttenheim.bsky.social
Alison Buttenheim
@alison-buttenheim.bsky.social
Behavioral scientist and public health nerd. Super into preventing infectious disease through behavior change, policy impact, and LEGO® Serious Play®. (Yes, really).
💊 How do "red pilling" narratives help us understand the current anti-vaccine moment?

📆 When we started working on this paper in Summer 2022, we didn't think it would take 3 years to write & publish.

😬 We also didn't think it would still be SOOOOOO timely.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Vaccines for Children grants. All terminated.

Every single one of the 64 US jurisdictions managing our immunization programs.

See Philadelphia's Dept Pub Health cuts below. The VFC terminations run from pages 25-31 in this listing: taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

HANDS OFF VACCINES FOR CHILDREN!
March 31, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Ok, I've seen enough. Can we just fast forward to this part, please?
March 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Man that would be so cool
www.accuweather.com/en/health-we...
March 4, 2025 at 3:21 AM
What did he promise during his confirmation hearings? Oh, right.
March 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
And then
March 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Oh, fine, nothing to see here. Just some totally normal and evidence-based things for HHS secy to say in the wake of a crushing outbreak of measles. #notnormal
March 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
CDC website only updating measles outbreak information "every Friday".
February 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Feeling a little bit this way this week.
February 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Is Edward Tufte in the house?

This teaching evaluation report is part of a dossier I'm reviewing for a promotion case.

How many violations of Visual Display of Quantitative Information rules can you spot here?
February 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
What is the human cost of the PEPFAR funding pause? Thx @brookenichols.bsky.social for this calculator:

🔴: Estimated adult & infant deaths attributable to the pause. Ticking up fast.

🟢: Preventable deaths if we end the freeze. These are ticking down as time passes with no action.
January 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
And a little louder for the folks in the back.
#PEPFAR
January 28, 2025 at 4:57 AM
A reminder of what #PEPFAR has achieved and continues to achieve in battling the HIV epidemic.
January 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM